The empire of gold

The Empire of Gold is the final installment of the Daevabad Trilogy, a middle-eastern fantasy fiction series set in the late 1700s. In the first two books, Nahri, a con artist from Egypt, discovers her magical roots by accidentally summoning a jinn, Daeva. She is swept (literally on a flying carpet) to the magical world of Daevabad. But this is no fairy tale version of Aladdin. Daevabad is a land of bloodied history steeped in tribal bloodshed and politics with magic thrown into make things interesting. The first two books were a pure delight to read.